Five Froggy Fingers

Frog With Toes

I recently fin­ished read­ing the incred­i­bly eye-opening and delight­fully inspir­ing book Born to Run, by Christo­pher McDougall. In it, Chris intro­duces us to Bare­foot Ted, a big man with a big mouth and an equally big heart who used to have ter­ri­ble foot pains that crip­pled his run­ning abil­ity. He began to walk with­out shoes […]

Running is Mental

As any run­ner will attest, and every non-runner has heard, run­ning is part men­tal. The body can do a lot, yet with­out the men­tal will to push for­ward through neural mes­sages from every mus­cle in the body scream­ing “STOP!”, you just aren’t going to dis­cover your full poten­tial. And we’ve all expe­ri­enced days when sim­ply get­ting out of […]

Through the Strands

I was recently perus­ing the Runner’s World (shouldn’t it be Run­ners’ World?) web­site and saw an ad that caught my eye. I clicked on it and dis­cov­ered a very cool web­site: Strands.com. It’s an activ­ity track­ing and social con­nec­tion ser­vice. Once you set up an account, you can enter in your work­outs, run­ning routes, and […]

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